Professional Development Coordinator

Responsibilities

• Annual associate review process for associates in New York office:
  • Solicit feedback from senior lawyers, including via in-person discussion sessions.
  • Synthesize and delineate feedback into Firm core skills language.
  • Prepare, update and analyze charts on status of annual associate reviews.
  • Determine whether certain associates would benefit from a mid-year review and solicit feedback from senior lawyers, as needed.
• Associate staffing:
  • Execute and distribute monthly staffing reports to relevant senior lawyers.
  • Monitor and prepare reports about associate hours.
  • Facilitate regular staffing meetings with senior lawyers, in connection with associate development and work allocation discussions.
  • Follow-up on issues raised during staffing meetings and develop individual plans, as needed.
  • Serve as an information gatekeeper, exercising discretion in passing relevant information through the appropriate channels and working with the appropriate senior lawyers to handle staffing issues.
• New associate mentor program:
  • Assist with the selection of mentoring committee members and mentor pairings for the incoming associates.
  • Organize and facilitate quarterly mentor debriefings with mentors to discuss mentor relationships.
• Liaise with Training and CLE department to ensure that training programs are informed by annual associate reviews, staffing meetings and mentor debriefings, and to provide associate coaching, as needed.
• Maintain internal records pertaining to associate arrivals and departures, leaves, and transfers.
• General administrative assistance on ad-hoc projects.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• 2+ years of Professional Development or HR-related experience in a fast-paced environment. Law firm experience strongly preferred.
• Must be comfortable working with lawyers at all seniority levels.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Outlook, and Excel.
• Excellent interpersonal, client service, and written and verbal communication skills.
• Exercises good judgment, has excellent organizational skills, and strong attention to detail.
• Proactive team player.
• Ability to multi-task among competing demands.
• Experience with viDesktop a plus.